What is not allowed

A petition will not be accepted where:

it is considered to be vexatious, abusive or otherwise innapropriate. If a petition does not follow the guidelines set out above, the Council may decide not to do anything further with it. In this case, we will write to you and explain the reasons

it applies to a planning or licensing application, is a statutory petition (for example requesting a referendum on having an elected mayor)

it refers to a decision for which there is an existing right of appeal, for example, Council Tax banding and non domestic rates and

it is a duplicate or near duplicate of a similar petition received or submitted within the last six months.